Output equations unreadable on screen

[justinacolmena]

Output equations are run together and unreadable. dnf is permanently broken on centos/fedora/github so it's impossible to tell what's installed. This should be enough information to reproduce the problem.

user1@fedora0:~$ uname -a
Linux fedora0 6.12.9-200.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan  9 16:05:40 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
user1@fedora0:~$ 

[justinacolmena]

Shift things around, redo the calculation, resize window, scroll around, and the problem eventually fixes itself, and the equations display as they are supposed to.

[justinacolmena]

With the correct resolvent, it's too wide for Latex -- and still not quite the right solution. In a district of snippy schoolteachers, prissy librarians, chest-thumping mayors, exorbitant property taxes, and kids cheating on math exams, namely, all the kids being above average just like Lake Wobegon. Think of the environment in which the software is written and used, and the context in which the results are to be interpreted.

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[daute]

It's much easier, to try to reproduce the issue, if you provide the input as text, e.g. - I hope, I havn't made a typo -(and a screenshot, if you report a visual problem):

x^2+(2*x_1-q_3+2*a*b)*x+3*x_1^2+(4*a*b-2*q_3)*x_1-q_2+2*a*c+b^2;
solve([%=0,diff(%,x,1)=0,coeff(%,x,1)=-2*x,coeff(%,x,0)=x^2,a*x_1^2+b*x_1+c=0],[b,c,x]);

Here it looks okay. What does wxbuild_info(); report - what wxMaxima version do you use? Is the issue solved, if you try the newest version (maybe even the current development git version (self compiled))?
Best regards, Wolfgang

[robert-dodier]

For the record, I tried the input shown by @daute and I get what appears to be plausible output (no obscured or overlapping symbols).

I am working on Ubuntu 16.04 with a current version of Maxima from Git (commit ae40695) compiled by SBCL 2.5.2, and current version of wxMaxima from Git (commit 96d54e).